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Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts (lemmy.world)
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Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[–] 585 points 3 years ago (61 children)

The jump in posts over the last month is incredible. I find Lemmy quickly replacing Reddit which is great.

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  • [–] 385 points 3 years ago (49 children)

    Not just number but quality. It was all memes at the start, now actual conversation is happening in more than just a few posts.

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  • [–] 182 points 3 years ago (24 children)

    Good point! I’m hoping for some of the more niche communities to start becoming more active. Things are trending in the right direction though.

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  • [–] 102 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    They will. My experience community building thus far is that if you can build up one anchor community to the point where people are organically sharing content and commenting, other adjacent communities will start to generate the same sorts of things with smaller subscriber bases because that anchor community is keeping people's eyes here. Just a question of time.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Speaking of sharing content, is there a way to crosspost around here yet?

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Yes, when you make a post look at the line where the 'save post' button is at the bottom of the entry. There will be two overlapping squares. That's the crosspost button.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    On Eternity, I have the three dot menu above posts that has 'Crosspost' as an option.

    Screenshot_20240610-115021_Eternity_1_1

    Edit: Didn't realise this was an year old comment, sorry.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    I'm usually a lurker, but I decided to just go ahead and make one that I was missing. Something about personally wanting Lemmy to grow is motivating to me.

    I made an XCOM community on Lemmy.world, and even though I'm the only one posting so far, it's fun to watch the subscriber count grow. Already at 50!

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Please definitely don't be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.

    Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the "gaming in general" communities.

    But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can't be beat. Hang in there, and you'll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    I’m dying with the lack of baseball communication. The biggest Baseball and Atlanta Braves communities are pretty much dead and I really miss talking ball.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.

    It's the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don't have a presence there.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Phillies fan checking in. Agree. I have a community with a bot that posts game updates like Reddit (which is nice) but the game threads are mainly me posting once or twice and one or two other people with side off comments. No community engagement so to speak. Long way from the Reddit game threads of several thousand comments.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Feel your pain. I'm constantly thinking, what the hell do I have to do to get r/orioles to follow me over to Lemmy to grow the numbers? They are one of the only things left at Reddit that I regularly look at. But 99% of the mod and user base there just doesn't care about the the issue.

    Conversely, that means that at least sports spaces are among the least bot-spammed places on Reddit. So there's that.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    You need both though. Memes and shitposts to scroll though and chuckle, and then quality stuff to engage on. Lemmys got that, and the momentum will keep it growing.

    I tried lemmy like a year or so ago, and it felt so stale. The technology is there, but the content just wasn’t. That’s clearly changed now. 😊

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Would be nice if there was a way for posts to be flagged such that memes and shitposts and more serious discussions could be separated, so you could filter depending on mood.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yep, also an easier way to explore/sign up and filter instances and their different pages. I'm new and have no idea what I'm doing regarding that. So far I'm just signing up to instances and hoping new interesting stuff appears on my page.. I'm on Lemmy.world as I assume we all are, how do I view the different pages on this instance or is it all just in a singular feed?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Hit the communities button near the top of the page to subscribe and view. You don't need to sign up to more instances unless you really want to, we can post on any federated instance. It's weird at first but you'll get it.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    BEANS

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    we have bean through a phase, but we are moving into more mature content in a brisket

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm making a brisket today. No beans. Is there s good cooking community? Or grilling/smoking?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Totally agree! I just have been a registered reader on Reddit. Now, it’s the first time I’m participating - might be considerably because lemmy is trending. Nevertheless, I found communities and post I’m interested in within minutes - 👌🏼 whereas Reddit was mostly clutter.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It just definitely needed to hit a critical mass. Enough that people had enough to read, stick around, and post themselves. Which in turn created a place that new people felt had enough content.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It's also about search engine indexing. It's happening slowly, but I've noticed Lemmy posts are finally beginning to show up in Google/Bing search results. As this trend improves, more people will stumble here by accident and then join out of curiosity.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I thought I was gonna be able to quit Reddit full time. Didn’t look for a few days, then did. Still check since some niche communities aren’t over here (or active) yet so I have to go there. But I only still check every few days (I was a several time a day redditor so usage is down) and I’ll check Lemmy at least once or twice a day now.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Yeah same, most communities i frequent on Reddit haven’t transitioned yet or is still tiny so I kinda juggle between the two apps.

    Lemmy is nice for tech and nerdy subreddits but that’s pretty much it rnow

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